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  2. Tea pet - Wikipedia

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    Tea pet or tea lover's pet (simplified Chinese: 茶宠; traditional Chinese: 茶寵; pinyin: cháchǒng), also known phonetically as chachong, is a small pottery figurine kept by some tea drinkers as an ornament or a good luck charm. [1]

  3. Chinese astrology - Wikipedia

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    Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day ...

  4. Chinese zodiac - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. [1] The zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture . [ 2 ]

  5. The 12 Chinese Astrology Signs and What They Mean for You

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    Rooster. Birth years of the Rooster: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 Next year of the Rooster: 2029 One can literally and figuratively set their clock by the Rooster, a sign ...

  6. List of astrological traditions, types, and systems - Wikipedia

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    Chinese, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Tibetan, and Western astrology each offer distinct insights into the connection between the cosmos and human affairs. The following is an incomplete list of the different traditions, types, systems, methods, applications, and branches of astrology.

  7. Teapot - Wikipedia

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    The Yixing teapots came to Europe with the tea and became known as boccaro ("large mouth" in Portuguese). [5] The Chinese teapot models were used since preserving the Chinese way of drinking was considered essential. [16] The first known order for teapots "with covers and handles" dates back to 1639. [17]

  8. Yixing ware - Wikipedia

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    Five Yixing clay teapots showing a variety of styles from formal to whimsical. Yixing clay (simplified Chinese: 宜兴泥; traditional Chinese: 宜興泥; pinyin: Yíxīng ní; Wade–Giles: I-Hsing ni) is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's ...

  9. On Yixing Teapots - Wikipedia

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    On Yixing Teapots [a] (Chinese: 陽羨 茗壺 系; pinyin: Yángxiàn Mínghú Xì; Wade–Giles: Yang 2-hsien 4 Ming 2-hu 2 Hsi 4; with Yangxian being a Qin Dynasty name for Yixing [2]) is a treatise on Yixing clay teapots [2] written by Ming Dynasty author Zhou Gaoqi [2] (Chou Kao-chi; 周高起; d. 1644–45 [2]) in the Chongzhen era [2] ca ...